Yes, this is part of the mystery. Darwin says evolution proceeds because of expressed differences between organisms, that is, differences that could...
Yes I think it is obvious that something that killed you before you had any offspring would be more serious than something that killed you after you...
I think it is clear that genes dictate the design of an organism including its behaviors. It's clear that genes can vary causing the organism to...
Yes If you assume that an animal has a fixed limited reproductive life, then there is no evolutionary point in living beyond that reproductive...
Hercules: OK I stand corrected re historical background. Iceaura: I think a lot of people share my difficulty with Dawkins' selfish gene theory....
A digital information scheme is one in which information is carried in a sequence of symbols as opposed to one in which information is represented by...
River-Wind: It seems to me again that all the theories mainly hinge on whether evolution is a short-term or long-term process. Aging as part of a...
Yes, but the book describes all the mechanisms in genetics that accomplish the variation in complex organisms including multiple chromosomes, unequal...
There is a new book on evolution theory: The Evolution of Aging (2nd ed), ISBN 0978870905, by Theodore Goldsmith that discusses digital information...
Yes I have heard that bleach will destroy DNA but how could a perp be sure he got it all.
I am not a creationist but the more I know about genetics the less plausible it seems that a living organism was created on Earth by random...
The "way evolution works" is supposed to be that individual organisms that have some desirable trait live longer and breed more and therefore the...
I understand that the idea that humans and other current species are evolved from earlier species is essentially a scientific certainty. There is...
As others have said, lemmings don't commit suicide. However, some female spiders eat their mates after sex and some have observed that the male...
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